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12-09-2002, 12:36 PM
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Well I am not going to be buying a 100K car LOL. The way a look at it is, it's a depreciating purchase, but you gotta have something to drive, you buy something old, you put money into it to keep it in shape on a regular basis, you buy something new, that money goes to the depreciation of the car, but at least my white *** isn't laying on the garage floor fixing it, you gotta calculate your labor in their somewhere.
Having an 84 GSL-SE with $5,000 worth of parts and $5,000 of my own time is a pretty fucked investment too, it's only gonna sell for 1K
Having an 84 GSL-SE with $5,000 worth of parts and $5,000 of my own time is a pretty fucked investment too, it's only gonna sell for 1K
12-09-2002, 12:38 PM
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Originally Posted by vosko' date='Dec 9 2002, 10:34 AM
there is a reason i bought the truck :bigthumg:
12-09-2002, 12:54 PM
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Originally Posted by phinsup' date='Dec 9 2002, 01:38 PM
Yea I just want something with a warranty and road side assistance and what not, piece of mind, I mean she works from 7:00 AM to 4:30 and goes to school an hour from our house from 6:00 to 10:30. I don't want her sitting on the side of the road at 11:00 at night.
Finally a person who also counts the labor that goes into something!
All these guys and thier "I can build one hell of a FC for $20,000", thats not the point!
12-09-2002, 01:02 PM
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My time is the most important thing I have and I have control over how I spend it. That's the way I have always been, I do enjoy working on cars, to an extent, but when it becomes a drag and/or much like in this case I am getting close to dumping way too much of my time and money into a car that I will be unable to recover any of it from I tend to take a look at things. I don't want to be sitting here in 6 months going, damn wish I would have put 5K into a new car instead of the 84 cause I have spent every weekend for the last month working on the mother ******.
Like I say, not going to get rid of my 10th AE under any circumstances, but my Jeep has a new motor, new tranny, new front end, etc, etc.... I will be able to keep it running with minimal effort and work on the white car when I feel like it. Now take the wifes car, it breaks, I HAVE to have it fixed because she needs to get to work and to school, if the thing breaks down on her at 11 at night there she is on the side of the road with no where to go and if she is close to school it could take me 45 minutes to an hour to get there.
Like I say, not going to get rid of my 10th AE under any circumstances, but my Jeep has a new motor, new tranny, new front end, etc, etc.... I will be able to keep it running with minimal effort and work on the white car when I feel like it. Now take the wifes car, it breaks, I HAVE to have it fixed because she needs to get to work and to school, if the thing breaks down on her at 11 at night there she is on the side of the road with no where to go and if she is close to school it could take me 45 minutes to an hour to get there.
